Claude-Olivier Doron
Claude-Olivier Doron is an associate professor in history and philosophy of science at Université Paris Cité. Trained in history, philosophy and anthropology, his work initially focused on the intersecting history of the notions of race and degeneration in the 18th and 19th centuries (L'homme altéré. Races et dégénérescence (XVIIe-XIXe siècles), Champ Vallon, 2016). He has also worked extensively on the history and current relations between psychiatry and justice and has edited various courses of Michel Foucault. He now works primarily on a long-term political and epistemological history of the various concepts of “race” and, more specifically, on the relationship between liberalism and race in the 19th century, as well as on the redefinitions of the notion of race in population genetics and genomics during the 20th century.